Mathieu Beauregard

Mathieu Beauregard was a policeman in French North Africa who frequented Awrib Merabi's Moorish cafe on the Rue Randon in the Casbah of Algiers, Algeria during the Algerian War. Merabi told him about the activities of the FLN while serving him drinks, leading to the FLN seeking to assassinate Beauregard. In 1954, Ali La Pointe was tested by the FLN leadership, being given an empty gun (unbeknownst to him) and instructed to shoot Beauregard. La Pointe shouted "Look how the organization deals with traitors" and pulled the trigger on Beauregard after getting his attention, but the gun was empty. He instead punched Beauregard and fled, and he was informed that it was a test to see if he would try to shoot the policeman and not the Algerian informant.